Home heating method



June 22, 1937. H. B. OAKLEAF HOME HEATING METHOD 2 Sheets-Sheet 1 Filed Oct. 13, 1936 INVENTOR.

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June 22, 1937. H. B. OAKLEAF 2,084,535

HOME HEATING METHOD Filed Oct. 13, 1936 2 Sheets-Sheet 2 INVENTOR. 1

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Patented June 22, 1937 UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE HOME HEATING METHOD Application October 13, 1936, Serial No. 105,365

Claims.

My invention relates to a method of heating homes, particularly adapted for small apartments and the objects of my invention are:

First, to provide a method of heating rooms 5 in a home in which the heating means is so arranged and constructed that heat may be diverted from one class of rooms to another class of rooms dependent upon the time of use during the day;

Second, to provide a method of this class in which the distribution of heat may be controlled so as to direct the major portion of the heat from the heating unit to part of the rooms of the home or may be redirected to other rooms taking some of the heat from the rooms already heated;

Third, to provide a novel method for controlling the heat directly to the various rooms of a home;

Fourth, to provide a method in which the heating unit is so connected with the distributing means so that heat may be drawn from one set of rooms and directed to another set of rooms as desired;

Fifth, to provide a novel method of distributing heat to the various rooms from and to a heating unit;

Sixth, to provide a novel method of heat distribution for home heating;

Seventh, to provide a method of heating rooms wherein heat may be taken from some of the rooms and utilized in other of the rooms or vice versa; and

Eighth, to provide a novel method in which the means used for heating homes is very simple and economical of construction and operation,

efficient and easy to install.

With these and other objects in view as will appear'hereinafter, my invention consists of certain novel method using the features of con- 40 struction, combination, and arrangement of parts and portions as will be hereinafter described in detail and particularly set forth in the appended claims, reference being had to the accompanying drawings and to the characters of reference thereon which form a part of this application in which;

Figure 1 is a plan view diagrammatically of a room arrangement with my heating means shown diagrammatically in operative relation therein showing by arrows the direction of the flow of heat in one direction; Fig. 2 is a similar view showing by arrows the flow in the opposite direction; Fig. 3 is an enlarged sectional view from the line 3-3 of Fig. 1; Fig. 4 is a sectional view from the line 4-4 of Fig. 5 of the heater showing the direction of air currents through the heat-er when the flow is as shown in Fig. 1; Fig. 5 is a sectional view from the line 5-5 of Fig. 4 showing the direction of the air currents as shown by Fig. 1 of the drawings; Fig. 6 is a 5 view similar to Fig. 4 showing the direction of the air currents as shown by Fig. 2 of the drawings. Fig. 7 is a sectional view similar to that of Fig. 5 showing the air currents as shown in Fig. 2 of the drawings; Fig. 8 is a sectional view 10 of the heating unit from the line 8-8 of Fig. 5 and Fig. 9 is a sectional view of the heating unit from the line 99 of Fig. 6.

Similar characters of reference, refer to similar parts and portions throughout the several 15 views of the drawings:

In Figs. 1 and 2 there is shown diagrammatically a simple arrangement of rooms for illustrative purposes only, it being understood that the room arrangement may be any arrangement desired wherein the proper results are obtained. Also in Figs. 4 to 9 a certain type of heating unit is used, however, various heating units may be used so long as approximately the same heat circulating system is obtained.

The heating unit I may be of any conventional type, however, a floor heater is desirable, and applicant has disclosed a preferred heating unit described as follows:

A casing la is provided which is rectangular in vertical cross section and provided with'an outwardly extending flange Ib adapted to fit on the floor and the main part of the casing extends below the floor and arranged to heat one of the main rooms of the home such as the living room by heat directly applied as well as some of the adjoining by passing through the door openings or the like. This heater is provided with a partition Ic which forms a chamber Id for the circulation of air. This partition Ie stops short of the bottom of the casing 'I, and mounted'in the casing is a hollow fire box Ie in which a burner B is mounted. Connected to the upper end with this fire box Ie is a downwardly extending cylinder I which has a central opening Ig therethrough. Connected with the bottom of the cylinder If is the vent 2 which extends out through a chamber Id and conducts the fumes to any place desired, while the chambers Id, If and Ih are heated by conduction from the fire box Ie and chamber If. Thus it will be seen that the heat from the burner B rises in the fire box Ie, passes through the tubes Ii of the chamber I f and downwardly and out through the vent 2, while the air that is heated by conduction 55 passes either downwardly through the chambers id and In and out through the duct 3 through openings 3a and 3b, or upwardly from the conductor 3 through said openings 3a and 3b and upwardly through the chambers Id and I it. into the room in which the heater is positioned. It will be understood, however, that even when the heat is generally circulating downwardly and into the duct'3, that a certain amount of the heat in the compartments id and lh, particularly from in the compartment I it will rise into the room thus tendv ing to heat the room in which the heater is 10- cated to a certain extent and other adjacent rooms by reason of door or openings. The duct 3 extends in a channel directed toward other rooms to be heated and is provided therein with a blower 4 at a suitable point, which blower 4 may be of any conventional type preferably an electrically operated blower with open fan blades adapted to conduct the air currents outwardly away from the heating unit l through the duct 3 when the blower is in operation, but will permit the air currents to move in the reverse direction when the blower is stopped with the natural action of the heated air in operation of the heating unit l. Connected on the other side of the blower from the duct 3 is another duct 5 and connected with the duct 5 are a plurality of branch ducts t, i, and 8 which may be any size and directed as desired for conducting the heat to or from the other room. These branch ducts t, i, and 8 connect with registers in various rooms for illustrative purposes. The rooms in which the registers 9 and iii are located we will designate bedrooms, while the wall register if is shown in the wall of the bathroom. This is to show that various types of registers may be used, either wall or floor registers, and may be provided with closure members if desired. For illustrative purposes the heater l is shown positioned substan-- tially in a partition between two large rooms so that both rooms are heated from this heating unit l, and with the door open in the adjoining room, heat may pass to this other room through the open door.

The operation of my method is as follows: In the morning when arising, the bedrooms and bathrooms are ordinarily first used. Therefore, the heating unit I is turned on and the blower 4 started, whereupon the major portion of the heat from the heater I passes through the duct 3, blower 4, duct 5, and branches 6, I, and 8 so that the heating unit I functions to heat the bedrooms and bathrooms and if desired some of the registers may be closed so that the heat will be concentrated to one or ti?) or all of these rooms. As soon as these rooms are sufilciently heated or as soon as it is desired to heat the major rooms such as the living room, dining room,

or the like, the blower is stopped, whereupon the natural circulation of the air in the heating unit will heat the rooms in which the heating unit l is positioned and at the same time draw some of the heat from the already heated bedrooms and bathrooms or any one or more of them, which may be regulated by closing the registers 9, l0, and l I or either of them. Thus, the heating produced by the heating unit in one may be transferred from one set of rooms to the other if desired for heating any of the various rooms or sets of rooms.

Though I have shown and described a certain method of heating rooms I do not wish to be limited to this particular method, but desire to include in the scope of my invention, the method substantially as set forth in the appended claims.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent is:

1. The herein described method of heating a home consisting in first forcing heat from a heating unit into certain rooms of a home, then suspending the forcing action and permitting the heating unit to draw some of the heat from said rooms and transfer it to other rooms of the house.

2. The herein described method of heating a home consisting in first forcing heat from a heating unit into certain rooms of a home, then suspending the forcing action and permitting the heating unit to draw some of the heat from said rooms and transfer it to other rooms of the house, then again applying the forced draft from the furnace to the first mentioned rooms.

3. The herein described method of heating a home, consisting in first heating the bedrooms and bathroom of a home through forced draft through a heating unit positioned in the major rooms of the home, then releasing the forced action of circulation and permitting the heating unit to draw the air from the minor rooms and deposit it in the major rooms.

4. The herein described method of heating a home, consisting in first heating the bedrooms and bathrooms of a home through forced draft through a heating unit positioned in the major rooms of the home, then releasing the forced action of circulation and permitting the heating unit to draw the air from the minor rooms and deposit it in the major rooms, then controlling the flow of heat from any of said minor rooms.

5. The herein described method of heating rooms consisting in forcing heat from a heating unit positioned in the major rooms of the home into the minor rooms, then drawing some of said heat back through said heater into the major rooms.

- HOWARD 1B. OAKLEAF. 

